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SSH: Can sniffers see where your traffic is tunneling to?

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Mar 15, 202613322 views
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If I set up an SSH tunnel to a remote server, can a man in the middle see the IP address of that server? If we step it up a notch, if the FBI is tracking you (AFAIK I'm not being tracked), can they see where your traffic is being tunneled to if they're monitoring you at the ISP level? I'm asking be…

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Fix for: SSH: Can sniffers see where your traffic is tunneling to?

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It depends on how the SSH tunnel is setup, but, generally speaking, there are ways to track things. Let's talk about the high-level scenario. When I make an SSH connection to a server, the contents of my SSH conversation with that server are secure …

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